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Vercel Deployment — Not Applicable

The Telegram Bot uses long-polling to receive messages from the Telegram API. Long-polling requires a persistent, always-running process — which is incompatible with Vercel's serverless (function-per-request) model.

Vercel is not supported for this bot.

Alternatives

Platform Cost Notes
Railway ~$0–5/mo ⭐ Recommended — see RAILWAY.md
Fly.io Free tier available Docker-based; global regions
Render (paid) ~$7/mo Free tier sleeps after inactivity
Oracle Cloud Free forever 2 free ARM VMs; full Linux control
Linux VPS ~$5/mo Full control; see PLATFORM.md
Docker (self-hosted) Varies Run anywhere; see PLATFORM.md

Webhook Alternative (Advanced)

If you specifically need a serverless/webhook setup, you can configure the Telegram bot to use webhooks instead of polling. This requires:

  1. A public HTTPS URL (e.g. a Vercel function or Cloudflare Worker endpoint).
  2. Registering the webhook URL with Telegram: 
    https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/setWebhook?url=https://your-domain.com/webhook
  3. Modifying bot.py to use Application.run_webhook() instead of run_polling().

This is significantly more complex. For most users, Railway polling is the right choice.